Books for the summer, as recommended by the editorial staff at Seed Magazine.
Reviews of Passions and Tempers: A History of the Humours, by Noga Arikha, and The Case Against Perfection: Ethics in the Age of Genetic Engineering, by Michael J. Sandel, from last weekend's New York Times.
A gargantuan textbook of neuropsychopharmacology, made freely available online by the ACNP (via Mind Hacks).
My own reviews of Jonathan Moreno's Mind Wars and Eric Kandel's In Search of Memory, both of which are now displayed in the sidebar on the left.
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